EP2043056B1 - Münzenannahme- und -ausgabemaschine - Google Patents

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EP2043056B1
EP2043056B1 EP08105377A EP08105377A EP2043056B1 EP 2043056 B1 EP2043056 B1 EP 2043056B1 EP 08105377 A EP08105377 A EP 08105377A EP 08105377 A EP08105377 A EP 08105377A EP 2043056 B1 EP2043056 B1 EP 2043056B1
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Atsushi Nagase
Keita Toyama
Keita Ito
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07G—REGISTERING THE RECEIPT OF CASH, VALUABLES, OR TOKENS
    • G07G1/00—Cash registers
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
    • G07D1/00—Coin dispensers
    • G07D1/02—Coin dispensers giving change
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
    • G07D3/00—Sorting a mixed bulk of coins into denominations
    • G07D3/14—Apparatus driven under control of coin-sensing elements
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07D—HANDLING OF COINS OR VALUABLE PAPERS, e.g. TESTING, SORTING BY DENOMINATIONS, COUNTING, DISPENSING, CHANGING OR DEPOSITING
    • G07D9/00—Counting coins; Handling of coins not provided for in the other groups of this subclass
    • G07D9/02—Change trays
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G07—CHECKING-DEVICES
    • G07G—REGISTERING THE RECEIPT OF CASH, VALUABLES, OR TOKENS
    • G07G1/00—Cash registers
    • G07G1/12—Cash registers electronically operated

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  • the present invention relates to a coin depositing and dispensing machine for depositing and dispensing coins.
  • a coin depositing and dispensing machine enabling automatic depositing and dispensing of coins by control signals transmitted from a POS cash register, an electronic cash register, a teller management machine or other cashier equipment, has been used for accurately and promptly delivering cash between operators and customers at, for example, a cash register in a shop or a teller in a financial institution.
  • EP0477722 discloses a coin processing apparatus for use in an automatic vending machine, a money exchanger, service equipment or the like.
  • the depositingprocess is subjected to an error-stop.
  • the error-stop transport of coins on the passage is immediately stopped, and thus the coins remain on the passage.
  • the present invention was made in view of the above problem, and aims at providing a coin depositing and dispensing machine capable of, in the case where the error-stop occurs during depositing operation, eliminating the need for manually taking off the coins remaining on the passage, easing the error-stop removal, and preventing a removal mistake that occurs when the error-stop is manually removed from causing the balance inconsistency.
  • a coin depositing and dispensing machine includes: a feeding mechanism for coins put into a coin input port one by one; an identifying passage having an identifying portion for identifying the coins fed from the feeding mechanism; an eliminating passage which is disposed continuously to the identifying passage and has a rejecting portion for discharging coins identified as rejected coins by the identifying portion; a sorting passage which is disposed continuously to the eliminating passage and sorts the coins; transporting unit for depositing capable of transporting the coins in a depositing and transporting direction of transporting the coins through the identifying passage, eliminating passage and sorting passage in this order, and in a reverse transporting direction reverse to the depositing and transporting direction; denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portions which are disposed under the sorting passage, accommodate the coins sorted for each denomination by the sorting passage therein and can eject the accommodated coins; and transporting unit for dispensing for transporting the coins ejected from the accommodating and ejecting portions into a coin dispensing port, and further includes control unit for executing
  • the automatic restoration control allows the coins remaining in the sorting passage to be returned into the coin dispensing port by the transporting unit for depositing, rejecting portion and transporting unit for dispensing in the case where the error-stop occurs during the depositing operation, coins remaining on the passage are not required to be manually taken off, the error-stop can be easily removed, and a removal mistake that occurs when the error-stop is manually removed can be prevented from causing balance inconsistency.
  • the coin depositing and dispensing machine of the present invention includes resettingunit for instructing reset of the error-stop, and the control unit executes the automatic restoration control by the reset of the error-stop by the resetting unit. Since the automatic restoration control can be executed by instructing reset of error-stop by the resetting unit, automatic restoration can be executed by simple operation.
  • the control unit after the automatic restoration control, handles the coins returned into the coin dispensing port as rejected coins and makes the depositing operation automatically restart.
  • the depositing operation can be automatically restarted, the coins returned into the coin dispensing port are handled as rejected coins, and the balance inconsistency can be prevented.
  • the rejecting portion can discharge the coins transported by the transporting unit for depositing in the depositing and transporting direction and the reverse transporting direction, and the control unit makes the rejecting portion eliminate the coins only by reverse rotation of the transporting unit for depositing in the reverse transporting direction at the time of the automatic restoration control.
  • the coins remaining in the sorting passage can be eliminated only by the reverse rotation of the transporting unit for depositing in the reverse transporting direction, and the error-stop can be removed in a short time.
  • Fig. 1 is a plan view of an internal structure of a coin depositing and dispensing machine according to an embodiment of the present invention.
  • Fig. 2 shows the internal structure of the coin depositing and dispensing machine
  • Fig. 2 (a) is a side view of the machine to which a rejection box is not attached
  • Fig. 2(b) is a side view of the machine to which the rejection box is attached.
  • Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the coin depositing and dispensing machine.
  • Fig. 4 is a cross sectional view of the vicinity of a coin dispensing port of the coin depositing and dispensing machine.
  • Figs. 5 (a) to 5 (d) each is a plan view showing operation of delivering unit of the coin depositing and dispensing machine.
  • Fig. 6 is a perspective view for explaining attachment/detachment operation of the rejection box of the coin depositing and dispensing machine.
  • Fig. 7 is a cross sectional view of an accommodating and ejecting portion of the coin depositing and dispensing machine.
  • Fig. 8 is a plan view of a body unit pulled out from a machine body of the coin depositing and dispensing machine.
  • Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a coin depositing and dispensing machine.
  • the coin depositing and dispensing machine is a coin depositing and dispensing machine which communicates with a POS cash register and enables depositing and dispensing of coins at, for example, a cash register in a shop.
  • a coin depositing and dispensing machine 11 includes a machine body 12 having an opened front face and a body unit 13 capable of being pulled out from the front face of the machine body 12.
  • the dimension of the front face of the body unit 13 in a machine body width direction is formed so as to be approximately half of that of the POS cash register, and the coin depositing and dispensing machine 11 can be used in combination with, for example, a banknote depositing and dispensing machine having a width the same as that thereof.
  • a coin input port 14, into which coins are put, is formed on the right side, which is one side in the machine body width direction, of an upper face of the front of the body unit 13 projecting from the machine body 12.
  • An operating portion 15 and a display portion 16 are disposed on the left side which is the other side in the machine body width direction, the operating portion 15 having operating and setting buttons including a reset button 15a as resetting unit for instructing reset at the time of error-stop, the display portion 16 including a liquid crystal display for displaying each item relating to operation, setting and the like, and an LED display for displaying the denomination-specific accommodated coin quantity.
  • the coin input port 14 is made in an openable/closable cover 17.
  • a dispensing tray 18 is projected on a lower part on the right side of the front face of the body unit 13, and a coin dispensing port 20, into which coins to be dispensed from the machine are released through a coin release port 19, is formed on an upper face of the dispensing tray 18.
  • a full detecting sensor (not shown) for optically detecting a full state, where the coin dispensing port 20 is filled with the dispensed coins, is disposed on the dispensing tray 18.
  • Light emitting unit 21 is disposed on the front face of the body unit 13 located above the coin dispensing port 20, the light emitting unit 21 emitting light in a different light emission form for each handling type of coins such as a coin to be paid, rejected coin and error return coin dispensed into the coin dispensing port 20.
  • the light emitting unit 21, as shown in Fig. 4 includes an LED 22 as a light emitting portion capable of emitting light of at least two different colors, and a substrate 23, on which the LED 22 is mounted, is obliquely provided so that the LED 22 faces the coin dispensing port 20.
  • the light emitting unit 21 is covered with a lens 24.
  • the lens 24 includes: a coin dispensing port irradiating lens portion 25, which is obliquely formed so as to face the coin dispensing port 20 and irradiates light emitted from the LED 22 to the whole coin dispensing port 20 and coins (indicated by a symbol C in the figures, the symbol will be omitted hereinafter) themselves dispensed into the coin dispensing port 20; and a forward irradiating lens portion 26 which is formed on the front face so as to face forward and irradiates the light emitted from the LED 22 forward.
  • a power source switch 27 of the coin depositing and dispensing machine 11 and a key 28 are disposed on the left side of the front face of the body unit 13, the key 28 for locking the body unit 13 with the unit 13 inserted in the machine body 12.
  • Fig. 1 is a plan view showing an internal structure of the coin depositing and dispensing machine.
  • the coin depositing and dispensing machine 11 includes: a feeding mechanism 31 disposed along the front of the machine body along the machine body width direction; a coin passage 35 having an identifying passage 32 disposed continuously to the feeding mechanism 31 in the machine body width direction, an eliminating passage 33 disposed continuously to the identifying passage 32 in a machine body depth direction, and a sorting passage 34 disposed continuously to the eliminating passage 33 in the machine body depth direction; transporting unit for depositing 36 for transporting coins in the coin passage 35; delivering unit 37 for delivering coins fed from the feeding mechanism 31 to the transporting unit for depositing 36 one by one; denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portions 38 as denomination-specific accommodating portions juxtaposed under the sorting passage 34 in the machine body depth direction; and transporting unit for dispensing 39 disposed adjacently to the right sides of the accommodating and ejecting portions 38, and in a longitudinal direction along a right side face of the machine body.
  • the feeding mechanism 31 has a receiving and accommodating portion 42 under the coin input port 14, the receiving and accommodating portion 42 for receiving and accommodating coins put into the coin input port 14 with the coins not aligned, and a feeding belt 43 constituting a bottom of the receiving and accommodating portion 42 is disposed along the machine body width direction.
  • the feeding belt 43 is an endless flat belt, transports the coins from the right side to left side of the machine body in a coin feeding direction, and is suspended by a plurality of rollers (not shown) so that an upward tilting region is formed at the upstream side in the feeding direction toward the downstream side in the feeding direction and a horizontal region is formed at the downstream side in the feeding direction.
  • the width of a passage on the feeding belt 43 is regulated so as to be larger than the diameter of the largest coin to be processed and smaller than the total diameters of the two smallest coins to be processed.
  • a reverse rotating roller 44 is disposed across a gap, through which only one coin can pass in its thickness direction, from the upper side of the upward tilting region of the feeding belt 43.
  • the reverse rotating roller 44 rotates in a direction reversely to the coin feeding direction of the feeding belt 43, and aligns and feeds non-aligned coins, which are to be fed by rotation of the feeding belt 43 in the coin feeding direction, on the feeding belt 43 by one layer and one line.
  • a regulating member 45 is disposed across a gap, in which only one coin can enter between the member 45 and the feeding belt 43 in the thickness direction, from the upper side of the horizontal region at the downstream side of the feeding belt 43 in the feeding direction.
  • a guide portion 46 is disposed on the lower side of the regulating member 45, the guide portion 46 with which the circumference of the coin on the feeding belt 43 comes into contact and which guides the coin to the starting end side of the identifying passage 32, and a part, which faces a feeding position to the starting end side of the identifying passage 32, of the guide portion 46 is constituted by a pulling-over lever 47 for pulling coins to be fed to the identifying passage 32 over to the inner side of the passage.
  • the pulling-over lever 47 constitutes a part of the delivering unit 37, can rock about a shaft 47a as a fulcrum in a passage inner and outer direction, and is urged by a spring (not shown) as biasing unit so as to rock to the inner side of the passage.
  • the coin passage 35 running through the identifying passage 32, eliminating passage 33 and the sorting passage 34 has a passage face 50 constituted by a horizontal face with which one face of the coin comes into contact, and passage side guides 51 for guiding the circumference of the coin at both sides of the passage face 50.
  • a passage width that is a facing width of both the passage side guides 51 is formed so as to be larger than the diameter of the largest coin to be processed and smaller than the total diameters of the two smallest coins to be processed.
  • the identifying passage 32 is disposed, inside relative to the feeding mechanism 31, in parallel with the feeding belt 43 of the feeding mechanism 31 via a first turn passage portion 53 turning in a right direction from the starting end connected to the feeding position of the feeding mechanism 31.
  • An identifying portion 54 for detecting the material quality, diameter and the like of a coin and identifying a denomination is disposed at the identifyingpassage 32.
  • Apulling-over lever 55 for pulling coins over to one side in a passage width direction is rockably pivotally supported on the first turn passage portion 53 and urged so as to rock to the inner side of the passage, in order to make the identifying portion 54 stably identify coins.
  • the eliminating passage 33 is formed in a second turn passage portion 57 continuing to the identifying passage 32 and turning in a left direction of the machine body, and a rejecting portion 58 is disposed aside of the eliminating passage 33, the rejecting portion 58 for eliminating coins rejected as a result of identification of the identifying portion 54.
  • a rejection hole 59 is formed in the rejecting portion 58, the rejection hole 59 having a diameter that the coin can be diverted throughout a portion from the passage face 50 to the passage side guide 51 on the outer circumferential side of the second turn passage portion 57, and a rejecting gate 60 is arranged over the rejection hole 59, the rejecting gate 60 serving as a part from the passage face 50 to the passage side guide 51 on the outer circumferential side of the second turn passage portion 57.
  • the rejecting gate 60 rocks upward from the passage about its machine body back side as a fulcrum, can open/close between an open position for eliminating the rejected coins, which are transported from the identifying passage 32 side, through the rejection hole 59, and a close position for closing the rejection hole 59 and permitting passage of the coins from the identifying passage 32 to the sorting passage 34, and is open/close-driven by electric driving unit such as a solenoid or motor (not shown).
  • electric driving unit such as a solenoid or motor (not shown).
  • a pulling-over lever 61 for pulling coins over to one side in a passage width direction is pivotally supported on the second turn passage portion 57 and urged to rock to the inside of the passage, so that the rejected coins are reliably eliminated by the rejecting portion 58.
  • a coin detecting sensor 62 for detecting passage of coins is disposed at the downstream side from the rejecting portion 58 in a coin depositing and transporting direction (identifying passage 32, eliminating passage 33 and sorting passage 34 in this order).
  • a rejection box attaching portion 65 to/from which a rejection box 64 can be attached/detached, is formed under the rejection hole 59 of the rejecting portion 58.
  • the rejection box 64 is formed in the shape of a box having an opened upper face, and can be attached/detached through an attachment/detachment port 66, which is made in a side face of the rejection box attaching portion 65, with the body unit 13 pulled forward from the machine body 12.
  • the attachment/detachment port 66 can be opened/closed by a cover 67.
  • the rejection box attaching portion 65 has a front side supporting portion 68 for supporting the front end edge of the rejection box 64, and a rear side supporting portion 69 for supporting a lower face at the rear of the rejection box 64, a space between the front side supporting portion 68 and rear side supporting portion 69 is opened downward, and the transporting unit for dispensing 39 is disposed under the supporting portions so as to face them. That is, the transporting unit for dispensing 39 is disposed under the rejection hole 59 of the rejecting portion 58, and the rejection box 64 is arranged attachably/detachably into/from a space between the rejection hole 59 of the rejecting portion 58 and the transporting unit for dispensing 39.
  • the transporting unit for dispensing 39 receives the rejected coins eliminated from the rejecting portion 58 to dispense them into the coin dispensing port 20 by not attaching the rejection box 64 to the rejection box attaching portion 65. Additionally, as shown in Fig. 2(b) , the rejected coins eliminated from the rejecting portion 58 are accommodated in the rejection box 64 by attaching the rejection box 64 to the rejection box attaching portion 65.
  • Rejection box detecting unit 70 for detecting whether the rejection box 64 is attached is disposed in the rejection box attaching portion 65.
  • the sorting passage 34 is disposed so as to pass through a left side region above the accommodating and ejecting portions 38 in the machine body depth direction via a connecting passage portion 73 leading from the eliminating passage 33 to the left side of the machine body and a direction changing passage portion 74 leading from the connecting passage portion 73 to the rear side of the machine body.
  • Sorting portions 75 are disposed, the sorting portions 75 sorting coins by denomination at denomination-specific sorting positions, that respectively correspond to portions above the denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portions 38, and making each accommodating and ejecting portion 38 accommodate the sorted coins.
  • Denominations to be sorted by the sorting portions 75 are, for example, 500 yen, 100 yen, 50 yen, 10 yen, 5 yen and 1 yen in this order from the upstream side in the depositing and transporting direction.
  • a sorting hole 76 for dropping the coins is formed in the passage face 50, and a sorting gate 77 is disposed at each sorting hole 76 except for the sorting hole 76 located at the most downstream side in the depositing and transporting direction.
  • Each sorting gate 77 rocks, upward from the passage, about its downstream side in the depositing and transporting direction as a fulcrum, can be opened/closed between an open position for dropping the coins, which are transported from the upstream side of the sorting passage 34 in the depositing and transporting direction, into the sorting hole 76, and a close position for closing the sorting hole 76 and permitting passage of the coins to the downstream side of the sorting passage 34 in the depositing and transporting direction, and open/close-driven by electric driving unit such as a solenoid or motor (not shown).
  • No sorting gate is disposed to the sorting hole 76 located at the most downstream side in the depositing and transporting direction and the hole is in an open state so that all the coins that have been transported will drop.
  • the sorting hole 76 located at the most downstream side in the depositing and transporting direction will be referred to as an open sorting hole 76a.
  • a pulling-over lever 78 for pulling coins over to one side in a passage width direction is pivotally supported on the direction changing passage portion 74 and urged so as to rock to the inner side of the passage, so that the coins are reliably sorted by each sorting portion 75.
  • a coin detecting sensor 79 for detecting coins to be transported is disposed at the upstream side of each sorting portion 75 of the sorting passage 34 in the depositing and transporting direction so that an open/close timing of the sorting gate 77 is set and sorting of coins to each accommodating and ejecting portion 38 is checked.
  • a transporting belt 83 as a transporting body is stretched in the transporting unit for depositing 36 so as to rotate while moving along center regions of the identifying passage 32, eliminating passage 33 and sorting passage 34 in the passage width direction by a plurality of pulleys 82 each as a rotation body pivotally supported on a vertical shaft so as to be horizontally rotatable.
  • a transporting belt 83 for example, a timing belt having a plurality of teeth on its inner circumference is used.
  • the pulley 82 a timing pulley having a plurality of teeth on its circumferential face is used. The distance of an interval between the transporting belt 83 supported by the plurality of pulleys 82 and the passage face 50 is kept larger than the thickness of a coin having a maximum thickness to be processed.
  • Projected portions 84 (see Fig. 5 ), which project downward and push and transport the coins in the passage one by one, are provided on the transporting belt 83 at a predetermined interval so that the coins can be separated and transported one by one.
  • the distance of an interval between the projected portion 84 and the passage face 50 is kept smaller than the thickness of a coin having a minimum thickness to be processed.
  • the transporting unit for depositing 36 can transport the coins in the depositing and transporting direction (through the identifying passage 32, eliminating passage 33 and sorting passage 34 in this order) and in a reverse transporting direction reverse to the depositing and transporting direction.
  • the delivering unit 37 is disposed at the starting end, from which the coins fed from the feeding mechanism 31 are received into the identifying passage 32, of the identifying passage 32, and has the pulling-over lever 47 for guiding the coins from the upper face of the feeding belt 43 to the identifying passage 32, and a circular cam 87 which is provided on the side opposite from the pulling-over lever 47 in the passage width direction and pivotally supported on a vertical shaft 87a so as to be horizontally rotatable.
  • the cam 87 is rotationally driven by electric driving unit (not shown) such as a pulse motor in a coin delivering rotating direction (clockwise in Fig. 5 ) or reverse rotating direction (counterclockwise in Fig. 5 ).
  • a pair of projecting portions 88 is projected downward at symmetrical positions on the circumference of an edge of a lower face of the cam 87, and a pair of grooves 89 is formed between the projecting portions 88.
  • An interval between the projecting portion 88 and the passage face 50 is formed at a dimension that the coin cannot enter.
  • An interval between the groove 89 and the passage face 50 and the width of groove 89 between the projecting portions 88 are respectively formed at a dimension that one coin can enter.
  • each projecting portions 88 is adapted to serve as a pressing portion 88a for pressing the circumference of the coin, which is fed from the feeding mechanism 31 and enters the groove 89, and delivering the coin to the projected portion 84 of the transporting belt 83. Additionally, an edge, which faces in a direction opposite from the delivering rotating direction, and outer circumferential face of each projecting portion 88 serve as a suppressing portion 88b for separating the succeeding coin from a coin to be delivered and keeps the succeeding coin until the next delivering timing.
  • a coin detecting sensor 90 for detecting the coins fed from the feeding mechanism 31 to the identifying passage 32 is disposed adjacently to the side of the feeding belt 43 of the feeding mechanism 31.
  • a position, where the coin fed from the feeding mechanism 31 to the identifying passage 32 enters one of the grooves 89 of the cam 87 and stops in a state of coming into contact with one of the suppressing portions 88b, is set as a constant position of the cam 87, and the cam 87 rotates by 180° in the delivering rotating direction (clockwise in Fig. 5 ) at a timing that the coin can be delivered to the projected portion 84 in accordance with a position of the projected portion 84 of the transporting belt 83, and feeds the coin in one of the grooves 89 to the identifying passage 32.
  • the groove 89 of the cam 87 is formed so as to have a dimension that a coin having a maximum diameter can enter. Accordingly, in the case where coins to be processed contain 500 yen coins having the maximum diameter, 1 yen coins having a minimum diameter and the like, if a fixing guide is provided instead of the pulling-over lever 47 shown in Fig. 5(c) , there is a possibility that two 1 yen coins each having the minimum diameter enter the groove 89 of the cam 87 and the cam 87 locks the 1 yen coins by biting them between itself and the fixing guide. On the other hand, if the pulling-over lever 47 is used, only one 1 yen coin having the minimum diameter enters the groove 89 of the cam 87.
  • the coin can be reliably pushed into the groove 89 of the cam 87 by the pulling-over lever 47 and can be fed. Accordingly, the coin can be prevented from being bitten, and stably fed.
  • each accommodating and ejecting portion 38 has an accommodating portion 93 for accommodating the coins sorted and dropped in the sorting passage 34 without being aligned.
  • An ejecting belt 94 constituting a bottom of the accommodating portion 93 is disposed along the machine body width direction.
  • the ejecting belt 94 is an endless flat belt and suspended so as to be tilted upward from the left side, upstream side in an ejecting direction, to the right side, downstream side, by a plurality of rollers containing both end rollers 95, 96 each pivotally supported on a horizontal shaft.
  • a reverse rotating roller 97 is provided across a gap, through which only one coin can pass, for the upper side of the end of the ejecting belt 94 in the coin ejecting direction.
  • the reverse rotating roller 97 rotates in a direction opposite from the coin ejecting direction of the ejecting belt 94, and aligns non-aligned coins, which are to be ejected by rotation of the ejecting belt 94 in the coin ejecting direction, on the ejecting belt 94 by one layer and one line and ejects them.
  • Ejection detecting unit 98 and a stopper 99 are disposed on the end side, relative to the reverse rotating roller 97, of the ejecting belt 94 in the ejecting direction, the unit 98 for detecting the number of coins to be ejected from the end of the ejecting belt 94, the stopper 99 for forcibly stopping ejection of the succeeding coin at the time when coins are ejected by the necessary number of coins.
  • the transporting unit for dispensing 39 has a dispensing and transporting belt 102 which is stretched, in the longitudinal direction, aside of all the accommodating and ejecting portions 38 in the coin ejecting direction, and the coins ejected from each accommodating and ejecting portion 38 are placed on the dispensing and transporting belt 102 and transported forward.
  • a reverse rotating roller 103 is provided across a gap, through which only one coin can pass, from the upper side of the front end of the dispensing and transporting belt 102 in the coin transporting direction.
  • the reverse rotating roller 103 rotates in a direction opposite from the coin transporting direction of the dispensing and transporting belt 102, and aligns non-aligned coins on the dispensing and transporting belt 102 to be fed forward by rotation of the dispensing and transporting belt 102 by one layer and one line and feeds them.
  • a passage plate 104 is disposed between the front end of the dispensing and transporting belt 102 and the coin dispensing port 20, and a releasing belt 105 for transporting the coins fed by the dispensing and transporting belt 102 and releasing them into the coin dispensing port 20 is disposed above the passage plate 104.
  • Dispensing detecting unit 106 for detecting the number of coins to be dispensed into the coin dispensing port 20 is disposed in the transporting unit for dispensing 39.
  • a shutter mechanism 111 is provided at a position of the open sorting hole 76a at the most downstream side of the sorting passage 34 in the depositing and transporting direction, the shutter mechanism 111 for keeping the open sorting hole 76a in an open state when the depositing process is normally executed, and bringing it into a closed state of preventing coins from dropping into the open sorting hole 76a at least in the error-stop removing process during the depositing process.
  • the shutter mechanism 111 includes a shutter 112 slidably disposed in a direction of crossing over sorting passage 34 under the passage face 50, and in a direction of crossing over a direction of pulling out the body unit 13 forward from the machine body 12.
  • a shutter 112 slidably disposed in a direction of crossing over sorting passage 34 under the passage face 50, and in a direction of crossing over a direction of pulling out the body unit 13 forward from the machine body 12.
  • an opening portion 113 for opening the open sorting hole 76a and a closing portion 114 for closing the open sorting hole 76a are juxtaposed in a sliding direction.
  • An extension spring 115 as biasing unit for biasing the shutter 112 in a direction towards one side of the machine body 12, which is one of the reciprocal sliding directions of the shutter 112, is stretched in the shutter 112.
  • the shutter 112 is located at a sorting hole open position for coming into contact with an inner wall of one side of the machine body 12 by a biasing force of the extension spring 115, and the opening portion 113 overlaps with the open sorting hole 76a at the sorting hole open position of the shutter 112 so that the open sorting hole 76a is open. Additionally, as shown in Fig. 1 , in the case where the body unit 13 is accommodated in the machine body 12, the shutter 112 is located at a sorting hole open position for coming into contact with an inner wall of one side of the machine body 12 by a biasing force of the extension spring 115, and the opening portion 113 overlaps with the open sorting hole 76a at the sorting hole open position of the shutter 112 so that the open sorting hole 76a is open. Additionally, as shown in Fig.
  • the shutter 112 shifts to a sorting hole close position for projecting outward relative to the body unit 13 and one side of the machine body 12 by the biasing force of the extension spring 115, and is stopped by a stopper (not shown), and the closing portion 114 overlaps with the open sorting hole 76a at the sorting hole close position of the shutter 112 so that the open sorting hole 76a is closed.
  • a guide face 116 is formed in the shutter 112, the guide face 116 which, when the body unit 13 pulled out from the machine body 12 is accommodated in the machine body 12 again, comes into contact with the front end of one side of the machine body 12 and slides the shutter 112 from the sorting hole close position to the sorting hole open position so that the shutter 112 is accommodated in the machine body 12.
  • control unit 121 for communicating with the POS cash register and controlling the coin depositing and dispensing machine 11 is disposed in the body unit 13.
  • the control unit 121 has a function of sorting control unit for specifying a position of the coin on the coin passage 35 based on the identification of the identifying portion 54 and the detections of coin detecting sensors 62, 79 and making the sorting portion 75 of the corresponding denomination sort the coin, and a function of accommodated coin numbers detecting unit for detecting the number of coins accommodated in each denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion 38, that is, balance detecting unit for detecting balance, based on the identification of the identifying portion 54 and the detections of coin detecting sensors 62, 79.
  • control unit 121 has a function of error-stopping unit for stopping depositing operation containing feeding operation by the feeding mechanism 31 and transporting operation by the transporting unit for depositing 36 in the case where a sorting error or the like is detected based on the detection of each coin detecting sensor 79 during the depositing operation of coins in the depositing process and a replenishment process, and a function of executing automatic restoration control for returning the coins remaining in the sorting passage 34 into the coin dispensing port 20 through the transporting unit for depositing 36, rejecting portion 58 and transporting unit for dispensing 39 in the case of the error-stop.
  • the control unit 121 further has a function of starting the automatic restoration control by reset of the error- stop with the reset button 15a, and a function of, after the automatic restoration control, handling the coins returned into the coin dispensing port 20 as rejected coins and making the depositing operation automatically restart.
  • rejection box 64 is not attached to the rejection box attaching portion 65, the rejected coins diverted from the rejecting portion 58 are received by the transporting unit for dispensing 39 and dispensed into the coin dispensing port 20.
  • a coin detecting sensor (not shown) of the feeding mechanism 31 detects that the coins are put onto the feeding belt 43, and thus the feeding mechanism 31 is operated, the transporting belt 83 is rotated and the depositing operation is started.
  • the feeding belt 43 is rotated, the reverse rotating roller 44 is rotated in the reverse direction, and the non-aligned coins on the feeding belt 43 are aligned by one layer and one line to be fed to the delivering unit 37.
  • the delivering unit 37 by the above described operation of the pulling-over lever 47 and cam 87, the coins fed from the feeding mechanism 31 are fed into the identifying passage 32 one by one to be delivered to each projected portion 84 of the rotating transporting belt 83.
  • the coins delivered by the delivering unit 37 are pushed and transported by the projected portions 84 of the transporting belt 83 to be identified by the identifying portion 54.
  • the sorting passage 34 since a transporting position of the coin can be grasped based on the identification by the identifying portion 54, the detections by the coin detecting sensors 62, 79 and the transporting distance of the coin transported by the transporting belt 83, the coins, for each of which the denomination is identified by the identifying portion 54, are sorted by the corresponding denomination-specific sorting gate 77 and accommodated in the corresponding denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portion 38.
  • the shutter 112 of the shutter mechanism 111 is in the sorting hole open position, the opening portion 113 overlaps with the open sorting hole 76a, and the open sorting hole 76a is in an open state. Therefore, coins transported to the open sorting hole 76a, 1 yen coins, are dropped and accommodated in the accommodating and ejecting portion 38 for 1 yen coins.
  • the rejected coin which is consequently identified as an unidentifiable coin or the like, is eliminated through the rejection hole 59 at the rejecting gate 60 when reaching the rejecting portion 58 of the eliminating passage 33.
  • the rejected coins eliminated through the rejection hole 59 at the rejecting gate 60 directly drop onto the dispensing and transporting belt 102. Then, the dispensing and transporting belt 102 is rotated and the reverse rotating roller 103 is rotated in the reverse direction, and the rejected coins on the dispensing and transporting belt 102 are fed onto the passage plate 104 one by one and dispensed into the coin dispensing port 20 by the releasing belt 105. If no coin is detected by the feeding mechanism 31 and the identifying portion 54 for a predetermined time, the LED 22 of the light emitting unit 21 is turned on in red, and it is informed that the rejected coins are dispensed into the coin dispensing port 20.
  • the error-stop state is a state shown in Fig. 1
  • coins C1, C2 remain in the identifying passage 32
  • coins C3, C4, C5 and C6 remain in the sorting passage 34 (containing the connecting passage portion 73 and direction changing passage portion 74).
  • Positions of the coins C1 to C6 on the passage are grasped based on detections by coin detecting sensors 62, 79 and 90.
  • the displayportion 16 or the like displays the error-stop, an operator checking the display pushes down the reset button 15a, and thus the automatic restoration control is started.
  • first restoration control operation and second restoration control operation are alternately executed.
  • the transporting belt 83 is rotated in the reverse transporting direction, the coins C1 to C6 on the passage are transported in the reverse transporting direction, and the rotation of the transporting belt 83 is stopped when the coin C3 located at the most upstream side of the sorting passage 34 is transported by a predetermined distance necessary for passage of the coin C3 through the rejecting portion 58 after the coin C3 is detected by the coin detecting sensor 62.
  • the rejecting gate 60 of the rejecting portion 58 is opened, the transporting belt 83 is rotated in the depositing and transporting direction, the coins C1 to C6 on the passage are transported in the depositing and transporting direction, the rotation of the transporting belt 83 is stopped when the coin C3 is transported by a predetermined distance necessary for eliminating the coin C3 by the rejecting portion 58, and the rejecting gate 60 is closed.
  • the first restoration control operation and the second restoration control operation are alternately carried out, the coins C4, C5 and C6 are successively eliminated from the rejecting portion 58 one by one.
  • the coins C3 to C6 successively eliminated from the rejecting portion 58 are dispensed into the coin dispensing port 20 by the dispensing and transporting belt 102 and the releasing belt 105 and returned as error return coins.
  • the number of the coins dispensed into the coin dispensing port 20 is counted by the dispensing detecting unit 106.
  • the cam 87 of the delivering unit 37 is rotated to a reverse constant position, where the coin C1 transported in the reverse transporting direction can be accepted into the groove 89, excitation of a motor for rotating the cam 87 is turned off, and a state of permitting rotation of the cam 87 is made.
  • the coin C1 transported in the reverse transporting direction enters the groove 89 of the cam 87, pushes and rotates the cam 87 reversely, and the cam 87 is, when the coin detecting sensor 90 detects the coin C1, reversely rotated so that the coin C1 is forcibly returned to the feeding mechanism 31.
  • the coin C2 is returned to the feeding mechanism 31.
  • the transporting belt 83 is rotated in the depositing and transporting direction so that the presence/absence of a remaining coin is checked. If no remaining coin is detected, the transporting belt 83 is stopped, and the automatic restoration control is completed.
  • the number of the coins eliminated from the rejecting portion 58 is subtracted from the number of accommodated coins of the corresponding denomination, that is, the coins returned into the coin dispensing port 20 are handled as rejected coins, when the number of the coins eliminated from the rejecting portion 58 corresponds to the number of coins detected by the dispensing detecting unit 106.
  • the number of the coins returned to the feeding mechanism 31 again is subtracted from the number of accommodated coins of the corresponding denomination when the coin detecting sensor 90 detects that the coins, which have passed through the identifying portion 54, are returned to the feeding mechanism 31.
  • the LED 22 of the light emitting unit 21 is turned on in red, and the operator is informed to that effect, similar to the case where rejected coins are dispensed. The operator takes out the coins returned into the coin dispensing port 20 and puts them into the coin input port 14 again.
  • the body unit 13 is pulled out from the machine body 12, a space above the passage is opened up, and the coins C1 to C6 remaining on each passage are taken off, as shown in Fig. 8 .
  • the body unit 13 is pulled out from the machine body 12, and thus the shutter 112 of the shutter mechanism 111 shifts to the sorting hole close position by a biasing force of the extension spring 115 and the closing portion 114 closes the open sorting hole 76a. Accordingly, in the case where, for example, coins are located in a place being difficult to take out, and therefore the transporting belt 83 is manually rotated in the depositing and transporting direction so that the coins are shifted to a place being easy to take out, the coin C6 does not drop by the shutter 112 closing the open sorting hole 76a even if shifting to the open sorting hole 76a, and can be reliably taken out. Accordingly, the balance inconsistency of the coins in the accommodating and ejecting portion 38 can be prevented.
  • the body unit 13 is pushed and accommodated in the machine body 12 after the coins C1 to C6 on the passage are taken out, and thus the guide face 116 of the shutter 112 of the shutter mechanism 111 comes into contact with the front end of one side of the machine body 12, the shutter 112 shifts to the sorting hole open position while being accommodated in the machine body 12, the opening portion 113 overlaps with the open sorting hole 76a, and the open sorting hole 76a is brought into an open state.
  • the operator puts the coins C1 to C6 taken out from the passage into the coin input port 14 again.
  • the body unit 13 is accommodated in the machine body 12, and thus the depositing process is restarted automatically, or by operation of the operating portion 15.
  • the ejecting belt 94 is rotated and the reverse rotating roller 97 is reversely rotated by, for example, a signal of dispensing command transmitted from the POS cash register, and the non-aligned coins on the ejecting belt 94 in each accommodating and ejecting portion 38 are aligned by one layer and one line and forwarded in the ejecting direction.
  • the stopper 99 is opened and the coins are ejected from the end of the ejecting belt 94 onto the dispensing and transporting belt 102 of the transporting unit for dispensing 39.
  • the ejected coins are detected by the ejection detecting unit 98 to count the number of the coins.
  • the stoppers 99 are closed and the ejection of the coins is regulated.
  • the dispensing and transporting belt 102 of the transporting unit for dispensing 39 is rotated and the reverse rotating roller 103 is rotated in the reverse direction, and coins to be paid on the dispensing and transporting belt 102 are fed onto the passage plate 104 one by one and dispensed into the coin dispensing port 20 by the releasing belt 105.
  • An operation start of the transporting unit for dispensing 39 may be simultaneous with an ejecting operation start from the accommodating and ejecting portion 38, or after completion of the ejecting operation from all the accommodating and ejecting portions 38.
  • the coins to be dispensed into the coin dispensing port 20 by the transporting unit for dispensing 39 are detected by the dispensing detecting unit 106 to count the number of the coins.
  • the replenishment process includes initial replenishment in the case where no coins are accommodated in the machine, and additional replenishment in the case where the coin quantity is reduced during operation.
  • additional replenishment in the case where the coin quantity is reduced during operation.
  • a large number of replenishment coins can be easily put into the machine by opening the cover 17 of the coin input port 14.
  • the replenishment coins put into the feeding mechanism 31 are fed to the identifying passage 32 one by one and identified by the identifying portion 54.
  • the coins are each consequently identified as a normal replenishment coin, they are accommodated in denomination-specific accommodating and ejecting portions 38 by accommodating in accordance with denominations in the sorting passage 34 and replenish the portions 38. Additionally, if the fed coins are rejected coins, they are eliminated by the rejecting portion 58 and returned into the coin dispensing port 20 through the transporting unit for dispensing 39.
  • the automatic restoration control is executed by the operation of the reset button 15a, the error-stop is automatically removed and the depositing operation of the replenishment coins is automatically restarted, similar to the case of the above described depositing process. Additionally, if the error-stop cannot be removed by the automatic restoration control, or if the error-stop is removed not by the automatic restoration control but by the operation of the operator himself/herself, the error-stop is removed by pulling out the body unit 13 from the machine boy 12 and taking off the coins on the passage, and then the body unit 13 is accommodated in the machine body 12 and the depositing operation of the replenishment coins is restarted, similar to the case of the above described depositing process.
  • the coins remaining in the sorting passage 34 can be thus returned into the coin dispensing port 20 through the transporting unit for depositing 36, the rejecting portion 58 and the transporting unit for dispensing 39 by the automatic restoration control in the case where the depositing operation is error-stopped in the depositing process and replenishment process, the coins remaining on the passage are not required to be manually taken off, the error-stop can be easily removed, and the removal mistake such that the operator drops the coins outward or into the accommodating and ejecting portion 38 when manually removing the error-stop can be prevented from causing the balance inconsistency.
  • the automatic restoration control can be executed, and the automatic restoration can be realized by simple operation.
  • the depositing operation can be automatically restarted, the coins returned into the coin dispensing port 20 are handled as rejected coins, and the balance inconsistency can be prevented.
  • the rejecting portion 58 has a structure capable of eliminating coins transported in the reverse transporting direction reverse to the depositing and transporting direction in addition to a structure capable of eliminating only coins transported in the depositing and transporting direction, the coins remaining in the sorting passage 34 can be eliminated from the rejecting portion 58 only by reverse rotation of the transporting belt 83 in the reverse transporting direction and the error-stop can be removed in a short time, at the time of the automatic restoration control.
  • the automatic restoration control is executed by the operation of the reset button 15a, it may be automatically executed when an error-stop occurs.
  • coins put into a machine are fed to an identifying passage one by one, identified by an identifying portion, and coins identified as normal coins are transported to a sorting passage, sorted for each denomination, and accommodated in denomination-specific accommodating portions, in a depositing process.
  • a transporting belt for transporting coins is disposed above the identifying passage and sorting passage.
  • denomination-specific sorting holes for sorting coins for each denomination are formed in the sorting passage. For example, in the case where coins are sorted with reference to the outer diameters of the coins, denomination-specific sorting holes are formed in an open state, the holes for first dropping a coin having a small diameter and successively dropping a coin having a larger diameter (see, for example, Japanese Patent No. 3867748 ).
  • balances of coins sorted in the sorting passage and accommodated in the accommodating portions are managed based on identification of the identifying portion and detections of coin detecting sensors disposed on the passage.
  • a coin depositing and dispensing machine including: the feeding mechanism 31 for feeding coins put into the coin input port 14 one by one; the identifying passage 32 having the identifying portion 54 for identifying the coins fed from the feeding mechanism 31; the sorting passage 34 which is disposed continuously to the identifying passage 32 and has the plurality of sorting holes 76 for sorting the coins for each denomination; the transporting unit for depositing 36 for transporting the coins through the identifying passage 32 and the sorting passage 34; and a plurality of accommodating portions (accommodating and ejecting portions 38) which is disposed under the sorting passage 34, accommodate the coins sorted for each denomination by the sorting passage therein, wherein the shutter mechanism 111 is provided, the mechanism 111 for keeping, among the sorting holes 76, at least the opened sorting hole 76 in an open state when the depositing process is normally executed, and bringing, at least in the error-stop removing process during the depositing process, the opened sort
  • the shutter mechanism 111 thus keeps the sorting hole 76 in an open state when the depositing process is normally executed, however, brings, at least in the error-stop removing process during the depositing process, the opened sorting hole 76 into a closed state for preventing the coins from dropping into the sorting hole 76, and thus the coins do not erroneously drop through the sorting hole 76, and the balance inconsistency of the coins in the accommodating portion (accommodating and ejecting portion 38) can be prevented.
  • the machine body 12 and the body unit 13 which can be released or pulled out from the machine body 12 and has the feeding mechanism 31, the identifying passage 32, the sorting passage 34, the transporting unit for depositing 36 and the accommodating portions (accommodating and ejecting portions 38), and the shutter mechanism 111 closes the sorting hole 76 in conjunction with the release or pulling-out of the body unit 13. Since, as described above, the shutter mechanism 111 automatically closes the sorting hole 76 in conjunction with the release or pulling-out of the body unit 13, special operation is unnecessary and the coins can be reliably prevented from erroneously dropping through the sorting hole 76.
  • the sorting hole 76 located at a last position in the coin transporting direction among the plurality of sorting holes 76 of the sorting passage 34 is in an open state
  • the shutter mechanism 111 is provided at the sorting hole 76 of the last position. Since, as described above, the shutter mechanism 111 is provided at the sorting hole 76 of the last position even if the sorting hole 76 located at the last position in the coin transporting direction among the plurality of sorting holes 76 of the sorting passage 34 is in an open state, the coins can be prevented from erroneously dropping through the sorting hole 76 in the error-stop removing process.
  • the shutter mechanism 111 can be applied to the opened sorting holes 76 to prevent coins from dropping when the error-stop is removed.
  • the shutter mechanism 111 is applicable not only to the coin depositing and dispensing machine 11 enabling depositing and dispensing of coins, but also a coin depositing machine exclusively for depositing.

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  1. Maschine (11) zur Annahme und Abgabe von Münzen, die Folgendes umfasst:
    einen Zuführmechanismus (31) zum Zuführen von Münzen, die einzeln in eine Münzaufnahme gesteckt wurden;
    eine Identifizierungspassage (32) mit einem Identifizierungsbereich (54), in dem die über den Zuführmechanismus (31) zugeführten Münzen identifiziert werden;
    eine Eliminierungspassage (33) mit einem Aussonderungsbereich (58), der zur Abgabe von Münzen dient, die im Identifizierungsbereich (54) als auszusondernde Münzen identifiziert wurden;
    eine Sortierpassage (34), in der Münzen sortiert werden;
    eine Transporteinheit zum Deponieren (36), über die die Münzen durch die Identifizierungspassage (32), die Eliminierungspassage (33) und die Sortierpassage (34) in dieser Reihenfolge in Deponierrichtung transportiert werden;
    nennwertspezifische Aufnahme- und Abgabebereiche (38), in denen die in der Sortierpassage (34) nach ihrem Nennwert sortierten Münzen aufgenommen und die aufgenommenen Münzen abgegeben werden können;
    und eine Transporteinheit zum Abgeben (39) der aus den Aufnahme- und Abgabebereichen (38) ausgeworfenen Münzen für den weiteren Transport in eine Münzabgabeöffnung (20),
    gekennzeichnet dadurch, dass die Transporteinheit zum Deponieren (36) Münzen in einer Umkehrrichtung der Deponierrichtung entgegengesetzt transportieren kann;
    und dass die Maschine (11) zur Annahme und Abgabe von Münzen darüber hinaus Folgendes umfasst:
    eine Steuereinheit (121) zur Ausführung einer automatischen Rückführungssteuerung zur Rückführung in der Sortierpassage (34) verbliebener Münzen in die Münzabgabeöffnung (20) über die Transporteinheit zum Deponieren (36), den Aussonderungsbereich (58) und die Transporteinheit zum Abgeben (39), im Falle eines fehlerbedingten Haltes während des Deponierens.
  2. Maschine (11) zur Annahme und Abgabe von Münzen nach Anspruch 1, die darüber hinaus eine Zurücksetzungseinheit zum Anweisen des Zurücksetzens eines fehlerbedingten Halts umfasst, wobei die Steuereinheit (121) eine automatische Rückführungssteuerung durch Zurücksetzen des fehlerbedingten Halts durch die Zurücksetzungseinheit ausführt.
  3. Maschine (11) zur Annahme und Abgabe von Münzen nach Anspruch 1 oder Anspruch 2, wobei die Steuereinheit (121) nach der automatischen Rückführungssteuerung die in die Münzausgabeöffnung zurückgeführten Münzen als ausgesonderte Münzen behandelt und einen automatischen Neustart des Deponiervorgangs veranlasst.
  4. Maschine (11) zur Annahme und Abgabe von Münzen nach einem der Ansprüche 1 bis 3, wobei
    der Aussonderungsbereich (58) Münzen abgeben kann, die von der Transporteinheit zum Deponieren (36) in der Deponierrichtung und in der Umkehrrichtung transportiert wurden, und
    die Steuereinheit (121) zum Zeitpunkt der automatischen Rückführungssteuerung veranlasst, dass der Aussonderungsbereich (58) Münzen allein durch eine umgekehrte Drehung der Transporteinheit zum Deponieren (36) im Umkehrrichtung eliminiert.
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